After waiting on the sidelines for more than a month, the Kremlin has finally intervened militarily in the bloody conflict that has unfolded in Nagorno-Karabakh since late September. But the deployment of Russia’s 15th Detached Motorized Rifle Brigade to the contested Caucasus region as peacekeepers in the early hours of Nov. 10 came too late for Armenia to avoid a humiliating defeat at the hands of arch-enemy Azerbaijan.

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